Image software

What software do you recommened for image creation?

[troyid]

Can someone recommend software for a new user to image creations etc. logos, animations for websites. Can you also recommend any reading material which may help.

[SlowMove]

I use Photoshop and Ulead Cool 3D. I hear Macromedia Fireworks is probably best for the Web, but never used it. I try to keep the reading to a minimum just reading from the Help menus.

[TheWhippinpost]

Fireworks has everything you need.

As for reading material, you don't say what you particularly want to read about.

[korkus2000]

paintshop pro is a little cheaper and can handle wahat you need. If you are looking for something free you can look at the gimp.

[pageoneresults]

Photoshop, ImageReady and Fireworks. Three of the best all around programs for image editing with Photoshop being at the top of the list. ImageReady which is part of Photoshop, is an awesome tool for the web. You can slice, dice and output to CSS (no tables), really cool feature! Fireworks also has an export to CSS feature.

[troyid]

Thanks for all your answers. I think I will use Photoshop. Can anyone suggest any beginners books or tutorials for this program.

[Northchild]

Photoshop 7: Classroom in a Book is the best tutorial that I've found.

[animgirl]

A book that tells you everything from a to z in Photoshop is the Photoshop Bible, version 7 for you. It doesn't exactly have tutorials in it, but it is a WONDERFUL reference, everything from explanation of dif file types and dumping your prefs and masking and on and on.

[limbo]

Don't know if you have any financial constraints but I would certainly look into getting a demo before you splash out on the full version of Photoshop - I think that last time I looked it was a whacking £600!

Photoshop Elements is a nice cut down version for £75

and Fireworks is about £200

You can probably down load trial versions of all of these for the Adobe and Macromedia website.